Farming

“Leaving No One Behind: Greater Involvement and Empowerment of Rural Women in Türkiye and Central Asia” The project is funded by the Government of Türkiye under the FAO-Türkiye Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture (FTPP II). The overall objective is to provide policy support, capacity development and knowledge generation in order …

Press release… TürkTraktör, the first manufacturer of the Turkish automotive industry and the leading company in agricultural mechanisation, supports the growth of start-ups operating in this field in order to accelerate technology integration in agriculture. TürkTraktör realised its first initiative in this direction with its investment in Agrovisio, which provides …

At the end of the first 11 months of the year in the Southeastern Anatolia (GAİB) region, the exports of the cereals, pulses, oilseeds and products sector increased to 3.5 billion dollars. Cereals, which is the only sector in Southeastern Anatolia that managed to boost its exports this year, also …

Press release… Turkish exporters want to strengthen their position in the Indian (Bharat) market, which is the most populous country in the world and whose economy is growing day by day. Shri Mijito Vinito, Consul General of India in Istanbul, visited Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) with a delegation consisting of …

We meet Dr Nomman Ahmed, Executive Director of Global Practice Advanced Analytics & sigma at Kynetec, and speak to him about his specialist subject: predictive intelligence. 1. Let’s start at the beginning. What is Predictive Intelligence in plain English? Intelligence is best described as the ability to accumulate knowledge, to …

Climate change is already affecting food safety, and animal and plant health, warns a briefing note from the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), a global multi-stakeholder partnership which is housed at the WTO and that seeks to facilitate safe and inclusive trade. Policies in these areas – known as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) …

Press release… “Türkiye’s annual bulghur production is 1 million tonnes” Veysel Memiş, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association (AHBİB), announced that they have started a promotional move in order to expand the consumption of bulghur, which has a special …

Olive oil statement from Minister Yumaklı: Do not take into account the speculations Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı stated that olive oil production will be around 180 thousand tonnes this year and said, “Türkiye’s olive oil consumption is around 160 thousand to 180 thousand tonnes. In other words, …

Ahmet Güldal, General Manager of the Turkish Grain Board (TMO), said that the productivity in grains has enhanced with newly developed seeds and said, “In the 1990s, 250-300 kilograms per decare of wheat was said to be good yields, but now there is a production of 700-800 kilograms per decare …

Any Concrete Progress in Climate Change Meetings? Disappointment Again! The impact of global climate change, which has been increasing since the industrial revolution of our world, mostly due to the use of energy-based fossil fuels by human beings, has been felt more in the last 60 years. Since 1988, Rio …